Our Vampires, Ourselves.

The Nation | November 20, 1995| | Copyright

Nina Auerbach. Chicago. 231 pp. $22.

Nina Auerbach, a literary Van Helsing (and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania), hunts the vampire uphill (she begins with Byron in 1816) and, mostly, downdale: from John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), through Bram Stoker's Dracula 1897)--the centerpiece, rendering all other vampires B.S. or A.S.--to Anne Rice's Lestat and Francis Ford Coppola's film. Though Auerbach accuses Coppola of having killed Dracula at last, I myself would sit through the whole Coppola film again ...

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